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Posted April 03, 2008 11:00 pm

Driving Daisy

Alfred Uhry examines the unlikely, 25-year friendship between a tetchy, White Southern matron and her kindly Black chauffeur in "Driving Miss Daisy." Jill Shellabarger stars as Daisy opposite DJ Howard's Hoke in the First Folio Shakespeare Festival production directed by Alison C. Vesely.

Opens today at the Mayslake Peabody Estate, 1717 W. 31st St., Oak Brook. (630) 986-8067 or firstfolio.org

Comic habit

Portraying the Sister has become a habit for Naperville resident Lisa Braatz. For the last five years, she has starred in the one-woman comedy "Late Nite Catechism" including its latest incarnation by St. Charles' Noble Fool.

Opens Saturday at Pheasant Run Resort and Spa, 4051 E. Main St., St. Charles. (630) 584-6342 or noblefool.org

Comedy, Italian style

Loves-struck youngsters, disapproving fathers and wily servants converge in "Lust, Lies and Marriage," a commedia dell'Arte found in 1896 after languishing for centuries in a Naples, Italy library. Italian master Antonio Fava directs.

Opens today at the Arts Depot, 600 Main St., Evanston. (847) 424-0089 or piccolotheatre.com

-- Barbara Vitello

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